Google is reportedly planning to introduce a brand new Android function that may let customers hyperlink their numerous Android units collectively, much like Continuity options throughout the Apple ecosystem. Android knowledgeable Mishaal Rahman tweeted in regards to the potential function, noting that it might enable Android units which can be signed into the identical Google account to speak with one another.
This might allow options like “Name Switching,” which permits customers to leap between linked units throughout calls, and “Web Sharing,” which Android Authority speculates could possibly be a neater option to rapidly arrange a private hotspot throughout the linked units. Apple has an analogous call-switching function known as “iPhone Cell Calls” that enables customers to make and obtain calls from Apple units like Macs and iPads signed into the identical Apple ID, offering they’re on the identical community because the consumer’s iPhone.
Android Authority additionally notes, nevertheless, that Apple’s “iPhone Cell Calls” function doesn’t enable customers to obtain calls from one other iPhone. The wording for Google’s “Name Switching” function (as seen within the screenshot supplied by Rahman) means that it could possibly be used to modify between totally different Android units, together with telephones. So that you may be capable of choose up a name on a telephone and switch it to a different linked telephone or one thing just like the Pixel Tablet. We received’t know for positive till Google formally publicizes this, but when it’s real then this could possibly be helpful for people who want to hold multiple telephone.
Rahman claims that the “Hyperlink Your Units” menu will seem underneath Settings > Google > Units & Sharing within the gadget settings as soon as the function is formally launched. Google has but to announce the Android gadget linking function, not to mention a launch date. We now have reached out for remark from Google and can replace this story ought to we hear again.